MY RESEARCH PROJECT.

Hi! Today I’ve decided talk a Little bit about my Research Project.
There is only a month and a half for the date of the delivery of our work, so we must hurry up because in a few days we will be on 15th of December.
Well, now I’ll tell the topic about my Research Project.
Since we started to think about it, I thought about doing it about something related with agriculture or fruits, because my parents are farmers and since I was born I used to listen things related with this field, and I think that it's a good topic to do a Research Project, because there are not a lot of people interested on it. I started to think about the life cycle of a fruit tree or something like that. The problems start when the topic and my type of Batxillerat were not really compatible, so I decided to change a little bit my idea.
I started to look the different topics proposed from the Institute and I found one interesting topic; Do a research about the vocabulary of one field (for example agriculture, fishing, livestock farming, etc.).
I liked it, so I started to look up for do a Research Project related with it, and finally, I chose my topic (I have not decided the title yet, but it will be similar); “Study of the vocabulary of agriculture on Sant Pere Pescador”.
This project will have a theoretical and a practical part.
The theoretical part will explain some things about lexicography, like what it is, the first lexicographers around the world, the evolution of the lexicography in Catalonia, and things like that.
For the practical part, I did interviews to farmers of Sant Pere Pescador, later I’ve extracted all the vocabulary, I’ve defined all of the words, and finally, I’ll create a little lexicographic work.
I’ve worked a lot this summer on it, so I hope not finish it at twelve o’clock of the day before the delivery.
I’ll say that maybe, it’s a lot of work do the Research Project counting all the work we have from other subjects, but I think that I’ve learned a lot of things since I started to do it, so I think that the day that I’ll finish it, I’ll know a lot of things that one year before I didn’t know that were existing on our lives.

GOOD LUCK for all the people that are doing this hard project now.:)

11th and 12th October 2009.

Hi! Today I’ll talk about what I did in my “long” weekend.
Firstly I’ll tell you where I went, later some things I saw that I liked a lot and finally some experiences I had.
Well, I only have gone out for two days: Sunday and Monday. I left my home at half past five of the morning and I went direction to the Parc Nacional d’Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici. I arrived here at eleven o’clock of the morning and I walked a lot with one objective: saw the Sant Maurici’s Pond.
There were seven kilometres from the parking to the pond and all of these kilometres were ascendant. It was really hard and we got tired a lot.
Later, we went to lunch and we took our car and afterwards, we went to leave the suitcases to the hotel on Vielha. Later we went to visit the town and we walked there and we took our car again and we went to Baqueira-Beret. I think Baqueira-Beret is one of the places that I liked more.
Well, later, at half past seven – eight of the afternoon we went again to Vielha and we had lunch there until nine o’clock.
When we finished our lunch we went to the hotel, ‘cause we were very tired form hours and hours of car and walk and walk without any stop.
Well, in the hotel, my brother and I had a room and my parents another one. We tried to saw a little the TV but… I couldn’t and I fell asleep… but not for all the night! When my brother switch off the TV, he fell asleep very quickly and there was a problem: he was snoring all the time and I couldn’t sleep.
I tried to sleep from twelve to three of the morning, but I couldn’t. At three o’clock of the morning I took the pillow and I went to the bathroom and I tried to sleep on the bathtub but I was listening the snores too.
At four o’clock of the morning I was really tired and I was desperate, so I called my mother and I went to sleep to my parents room and my father (another snorer person too) went to my bed with my brother. Finally, I could sleep!
We woke up at seven o’clock of the morning, we had lunch at the hotel and we left out the hotel and we went to Andorra.
We spend all the day there and we went shopping! Later, at five o’clock of the afternoon we took the car direction Sant Pere Pescador. We were really tired. We spend two hours trying leaving Andorra, but there were a lot of cars on the road and a large queue.
Finally, after pass five hours inside the car, we arrived to our home, after to pass a lot of bends.
I think it was a really good short travel to disconnect a lot from our daily lives, but I think there were too many bends.
I like the houses from these zone, they’re brilliant, and I laughed a lot when we were at the road and there were a lot of cows and horses walking on the road peacefully!
Another thing that I liked a lot was all the vegetation and nature. It was amazing! All of the landscapes were fascinant, and also, another thing really beautiful was that a lot of times, on the road, you could see water going down for the wall of the mountains and small waterfalls.
The last travel of our family was when I had eight years old, so I think it was time to do another one. In conclusion, apart from the tiredness, it was a really good travel to remember.
If you want to see all the landscapes I saw, here you have a link of the album of photos that I've upload on my Facebook.;)

If you have the opportunity to go there, don’t leave it! You will enjoy it a lot! ;)

ARE NEW TECHNOLOGIES GOOD OR BAD FOR OUR SOCIETY?

Nowadays, people who don't have minimum a computer in their home is a strange person. We are in a period of a big development of new technologies, so a lot of things that we must do are related with the use of computers, mobile phones, cameras, etc.

I think that new technologies are good, but not in a massive use. Yes, we can pass an afternoon talking with our friends on Messenger, or surfing on the Facebook, I did it, and I'm not going to deny it. ;)

Also but, there is another extreme; the hikikomori people. Who are hikikomoris people?
People who are called hikikomoris are persons who pass days, and also someone pass weeks, closed on their rooms without any more contact with the world apart from the new technologies.
The hikikomoris are a big experts of computer games, they are really good hackers, they have uncountable contacts on their social nets (Facebook, Tuenti, Twiter, etc.), and they can pass twenty four hours in a chat without any type of problem.

There is a big problem when their parents want that their son leave his room and going to the street. They will suffer really big problems, like a drug addict without his diary drug. They can suffer anxiety, depression, violent behaviour...

We know that Catalonia isn't Japan, but... who knows if hikikomoris will take prominence in our country?
In this moment, young people in Catalonia are growing learning some positive points, like search information for their homework, projects and things like that, thing that some of their parents can't say , 'cause they don't know how they can use a computer or simply, surf on the net.
But... ATTENTION! We must know the limits ‘cause maybe, if we don’t control us, in five years Catalonia will be full of hikikomoris. We must take in account some limits if we won't to be a hikikomori on the future:

• Don’t use the Internet more than ten hours weekly.

• Not spend more than we win with our mobile phone.

• Don’t change our social activities like go out with friends for play computer games or video games.

• A lot of points like that.

In my point of view, the most important point it’s the third, ‘cause people can start say: “No... today I’m not going to going out, I’m really tired and I’m going to sleep early”, and later this person starts to play computer games or chatting in a compulsive way.
The studies said that persons who are depressed or have a low self-esteem, are the suitable profile, 'cause theywant to be alone, so a lot of these people start to play computer games, chat with persons who never will know who they are...
To sum up, I think it’s good have a computer, a camera, a mobile phone, etc, but using it consciousness ‘cause it can be really bad for our society lifes. We can lose a lot of friends and in the future only have a friend: THE COMPUTER.